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    "On His Deceased Wife"
    Methought I saw my late espoused Saint
    Brought to me like Alcestic from the grave,
    Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave,
    Rescu'd from death by force though pale and faint.
    Mine as whom wash' t from spot of childbed taint,
    Purification in the old law did save,
    And such, as yet once more I trust to have
    Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint,
    Came vested all in white, pure as her mind:
    Her face was vail'd, yet to my fancied sight,
    Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shin'd
    So clear, as in no face with more delight.
    But O, as to embrace me she inclined
    I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

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    Keeble's relationship with his wife is such that
    I. he needs her approval
    II. he is disgusted by her
    III. he is intimidated by her
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    [passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows.[/passage-header]     Now, it is clear that the decline of a language must ultimately have political and economic causes: it is not due to simply to the bad influence of this or that individual writer. But an effect can become a cause, reinforcing the original cause and producing the same effect in an intensified form, and so on indefinitely. A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts.
    [passage-footer]Passage adapted from: Politics And The English Language, George Orwell[/passage-footer]

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    The author would most likely agree that ____________.
    Solution
    The author concludes the passage by saying that untidy use of English will cause us to have foolish thoughts. Hence, he is more likely to agree with option B.
    The author clearly mentions in the second line what option A says. He need not agree with that as he states that point himself. A is wrong.
    Others are inconsistent with the contents of the passage.
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    "The Mower to the Glowworms"
    Ye living lamps, by whose dear light
    The nightingale does sit so late,
    And studying all the summer night,
    Her matchless songs does meditate;
    Ye country comets, that portend
    No war nor prince's funeral,
    Shining unto no higher end
    Than to presage the grass's fall;
    Ye glowworms, whose officious flame
    To wandering owners shows the way,
    That in the night have lost their aim,
    And after foolish fires do stray;
    Your courteous lights in vain you waste,
    Since Juliana here is come,
    For she my mind hath so displaced
    That I shall never find my home.

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    The speaker of the poem describes glowworms as providing assistance to
    I. nightingales
    II. princes
    III. mowers
    Solution
    Option D, representing nightingales and mowers, is correct. The speaker in the poem describes the glowworms providing assistance to the nightingales who stay awake long into the night because of their light, and the mowers who lose their aim without being guided by them. Because the poem suggests both of them being affected, Options A and C are incorrect, representing only each of these. Option B is incorrect because the statement mentions the glowworm assisting the princes, whereas the poem doesn't support this inference. Option E, enumerating all the three options is incorrect. 
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                 "The Errand"
    "On you go now! Run, son, like the devil
    And tell your mother to try
    To find me a bubble for the spirit level
    And a new knot for this tie."
    But still he was glad, I know, when I stood my ground,
    Putting it up to him
    With a smile that trumped his smile and his fool's errand,
    Waiting for the next move in the game.

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    The errand described in the poem is a quest for ________.
    Solution
    In the poem, the speaker asks his son to run to his mom and tell her to get the father a bubble for the spirit and a knot for his tie. A knot is something you get using a tie. It's not a separate tool. Hence, what the father asked his son to get does not make sense. Thus, A is the correct answer.
    The other choices are incorrect. 
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    Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For 31388expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. To spend to much time in studies is sloth; to use them to much for ornament is affectation; to make judgement wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for 96203natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions to much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men contemn* studies, simple men 48692admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation. Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

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    The author compares "abilities" and "plants" (line 96203) to make the point that ______.
    Solution
    Option C is the correct answer. Abilities and plants are compared in the sense individuals must be cared for and nurtured in order to prosper, just like plants are. The statements of options A,B,D and E do not convey the same meaning reflected in the text, and thus, are incorrect. 
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    [passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]     Could Washington, Madison, and the other framers of the Federal Constitution revisit the earth in this year 1922, it is likely that nothing would bewilder them more than the recent Prohibition Amendment. Railways, steamships, the telephone, automobiles, flying machines, submarines-all these developments, unknown in their day, would fill them with amazement and admiration. They would marvel at the story of the rise and downfall of the German Empire; at the growth and present greatness of the Republic they themselves had founded. None of these  things, however, would seem to them to involve any essential change in the beliefs and purposes of men as they had known them. The Prohibition Amendment, on the contrary, would evidence to their minds the breaking down of a principle of government which they had deemed axiomatic, the abandonment of a purpose which they had supposed immutable.
    [passage-footer]Adapted from: Our changing Constitution, C. W. Pierson (1922)[/passage-footer]

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    The author apparently believes that the "principle of government" mentioned in the last sentence is ________.
    Solution
    In the last sentence, the author states that The Prohibition Amendment fails the principle of government which the founders thought was axiomatic, meaning something like what the axis powers had. The amendment violates the principle of government. Hence, C is correct.
    We can reject the other answers.
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    "The Mower to the Glowworms"
    Ye living lamps, by whose dear light
    The nightingale does sit so late,
    And studying all the summer night,
    Her matchless songs does meditate;
    Ye country comets, that portend
    No war nor prince's funeral,
    Shining unto no higher end
    Than to presage the grass's fall;
    Ye glowworms, whose officious flame
    To wandering owners shows the way,
    That in the night have lost their aim,
    And after foolish fires do stray;
    Your courteous lights in vain you waste,
    Since Juliana here is come,
    For she my mind hath so displaced
    That I shall never find my home.

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    "The Mower to the Glowworms" could most reasonably be considered _______.
    Solution
    Option B is the correct answer. The poem could very well be written complimenting a women. Here, the speaker's love for Juliana is compared to the glowworms which lead him back to his home. The statements of the options A,C,D and E are incoherent with the tone of the poem, and thus, are incorrect. 
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    [passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]     Could Washington, Madison, and the other framers of the Federal Constitution revisit the earth in this year 1922, it is likely that nothing would bewilder them more than the recent Prohibition Amendment. Railways, steamships, the telephone, automobiles, flying machines, submarines-all these developments, unknown in their day, would fill them with amazement and admiration. They would marvel at the story of the rise and downfall of the German Empire; at the growth and present greatness of the Republic they themselves had founded. None of these  things, however, would seem to them to involve any essential change in the beliefs and purposes of men as they had known them. The Prohibition Amendment, on the contrary, would evidence to their minds the breaking down of a principle of government which they had deemed axiomatic, the abandonment of a purpose which they had supposed immutable.
    [passage-footer]Adapted from: Our changing Constitution, C. W. Pierson (1922)[/passage-footer]

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    It can be inferred that the paragraph is intended as ___________.
    Solution
    Option B, a summary of social and political change since the writing of the Federal Constitution, is the correct answer. The passage has tried to convey to the readers that the world has changed from what it was, and as people living in this world, we must also change with it in order to survive, be it socially or politically. The statements of options A,C,D and E are incorrect because they are incoherent with the implication of the passage. 
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    [passage-header]Read the passage given below and answer the question that follows:[/passage-header]     I chose to wander by Bethlehem Hospital; partly because it lay on my road round to Westminster; partly, because I had a fancy in my head which could be best pursued within sight of its walls. And the fancy was: Are not the sane and the insane equal at night as the same lie a dreaming? Are not all of us outside this hospital, who dream, more or less in the condition of those inside it, every night of our lives? Are we not nightly persuaded, as they daily are, that we associate preposterously with kings and queens, and notabilities of all sorts? Do we not nightly jumble events and personages and times and places, as these do daily? Said an afflicted man to me, when I visited a hospital like this, 'Sir, I can frequently fly'. I was half ashamed to reflect that so could I- by night. I wonder that the great master, when he called Sleep the death of each day's life, did not call Dreams the insanity of each day's sanity.
    [passage-footer]Passage adapted from: The Uncommercial Traveller, C. Dickens (1860)[/passage-footer]

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    It can be correctly inferred that Bethlehem hospital:
    I is very close to Westminster
    II has patients who are regarded as insane
    III is a place the author has visited before
    Solution
    In the third line, the author asks if the sane and the insane were not the same at night when they lie down and dream. He further says that people outside the hospital were almost living the same lives as those inside it. The seventh line shows that the author once spoke to a man suffering from illness inside a hospital like this one that he could frequently fly. All these statements tell us that Bethlehem Hospital houses patients who are regarded as insane. Hence, B is correct.
    The passage says that Bethlehem Hospital was on the road that goes to Westminster. It does not say whether it was close to Westminster. It also doesn't mention if he had visited it before. Hence, the other choices can be rejected.
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    "The Mower to the Glowworms"
    Ye living lamps, by whose dear light
    The nightingale does sit so late,
    And studying all the summer night,
    Her matchless songs does meditate;
    Ye country comets, that portend
    No war nor prince's funeral,
    Shining unto no higher end
    Than to presage the grass's fall;
    Ye glowworms, whose officious flame
    To wandering owners shows the way,
    That in the night have lost their aim,
    And after foolish fires do stray;
    Your courteous lights in vain you waste,
    Since Juliana here is come,
    For she my mind hath so displaced
    That I shall never find my home.

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    The speaker implies that, without the glowworms, mowers who have "lost their aim" (line 11) would be likely to _______.
    Solution
    The correct answer for this would be option E, i.e., without the glowworms, the mowers would never be able find their way home. This is further supported by the speaker addressing the mowers to be wandering, and the last line in the poem stating that he would be unable to find his home. It's the glowworms that show him the way and lead him straight. The statements of options A,B,C,D and E are not supported by the poem, and thus, are incorrect. 
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